SOB

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SOB
General information
Genre (s) Hardcore punk , grindcore
founding 1983
Current occupation
Kawatake Daisuke
Yasue
Etsushi
O. Seki
former members
Bass, vocals
 B. Naoto
singing
 Yoshitomo "Tottsuan" Suzuki († 1994)
guitar
 G. Toshimi

SOB (also Sabotage Organized Barbarian ) is a Japanese music group. She is one of the early exponents of grindcore in Japan and had a great influence on leading bands on the scene such as Napalm Death and Brutal Truth . Along with loudness, they are counted among the most internationally known bands on the Japanese metal and hardcore punk scene.

history

SOB was founded in 1983 in Osaka, Japan as a hardcore punk band. In 1985 the first demo, Leave Me Alone, was released . Despite the English song title, the lyrics are mostly written in Japanese . The debut album Don't Be Swindle was released in 1987 on Selfish Records . There was a lot of tape trading between SOB and Shane Embury from the English grindcore band Napalm Death . Both Embury and napalm death drummer Mick Harris were impressed by SOB and compared the music with the American victories . As part of their first joint tour of Japan with Napalm Death, a split EP was released in 1989 by both bands. A little later, SOB toured England through Napalm Death. A live EP of this tour was released in 1989.

In October 1990 SOB played on the radio show by John Peel , the recordings were later released as an EP under the title The Peel Sessions . Also in 1990 the second studio album What's the Truth? . After a live album as well as further EPs and singles, Gate of Doom (1993) and Vicious World (1994) two further studio albums were released. After the suicide of singer Tottsuan in 1994, who threw himself in front of a moving train, the band was initially on hold. In 1999, she signed up with the EP Dub Grind and founding member and bassist Naoto as a singer back in 2000 appeared a video - compilation under the title History of ... SOB who offered a musical cross-section from 1986 to 1999. The last studio album so far was released in 2003 by EMI Japan under the title Still Grind Attitude . Since then the band has become quiet, they only give a few concerts in Japan.

Discography

  • Don't Be Swindle (1987)
  • What's the Truth (1990)
  • Gate of Doom (1993)
  • Vicious World (1994)
  • Dub Grind (EP, 1999)
  • Still Grind Attitude (2003)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ian Christe: Sound of the Beast. The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal . ItBooks, ISBN 978-0-380-81127-4 , pp. 262 .
  2. ↑ Albert Mudrian: Choosing Death: The Incredible Story of Death Metal & Grindcore . IP Verlag Jeske and Mader, 2006, ISBN 978-3-931624-35-4 , p. 121 .
  3. ^ Ian Christe: Sound of the Beast. The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal . ItBooks, ISBN 978-0-380-81127-4 , pp. 357 .

Web links

  • SOB at Metal Storm (English)